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TIL that 'Eigengrau' is the name of the gray color humans see in the absence of light

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oB917 TIL the peak of Mount Everest is a "fecal time bomb" due to over six decades worth of human waste being left on the mountain.
X0k98 TIL that Tucker Carlson used to work at CNN
xVdYw TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.
9w07B TIL that brothers Winthrop and Nelson Rockefeller were state governors at the same time; Winthrop as governor in Arkansas and Nelson in New York.
wYME TIL German Chocolate Cake is named for its creator, Sam German, and in fact has nothing to do with Germany.